Episode 36: Supporting Your Child’s Speech & Language Development with Katie & Carly of Wee Talkers @weetalkers

No One Told Us

Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Episode 36: Supporting Your Child’s Speech & Language Development with Katie & Carly of Wee Talkers @weetalkers “Why isn’t my toddler talking yet?” “Should my child be saying more words?” “Is screen time OK for my baby?” If you have ever had these questions, you are NOT alone. Worrying about your child’s speech and language development is very common- and there is SO much scary info out there! Speech and language is such an important and complex piece of your child’s development. And spoiler alert- every baby is on their own timeline! It can be hard to know when you should and shouldn’t worry though. That’s why this week Rachael has special guests- Katie & Carly, pediatric speech language pathologists, owners of Wee Talkers, and mothers themselves on the pod! Katie & Carly educate us all about language and communication development in babies and toddlers. They discuss the importance of early intervention and provide tips for parents to encourage language development for their little ones! Katie and Carly address concerns about screen time and provide some helpful, guilt free guidelines for how to use screen time as a tool! Find out how responsive and nurturing interactions between caregivers and children helps support optimal language development and the benefits of shared experiences, and so much more! Mentioned in this episode: Weetalkers Instagram Free Baby Bundle Toddler Course use code TOLDUS10 for $10 off Songs & Stories Membership use code TOLDUS10 for $10 off Free Milestone Checklist How To Access Early Intervention Cost and Alternative Options for Speech Therapy that Families Might not Know About If you enjoyed this episode, please rate 5⭐️ and write us a review! ⬇️ ✨For sleep support and resources on infant and child sleep, visit heysleepybaby.com and follow @heysleepybaby on Instagram! 😴☁️🤎✨ Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Instagram | Tiktok | Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Rachel, and today I'm so excited to talk with Katie and Carly of We Talkers.
0:11.6	Katie and Carly are pediatric stage language pathologists with over 25 years of experience working in public and private practice, hospitals, and schools.
0:19.8	And We Talkers teaches parents of babies and toddlers
0:22.3	how to support their child's language and communication development. We Talkers offers connection
0:27.3	driven language resources via online education courses and memberships. And not only do they provide
0:33.6	all of this, but they're also moms and have a combined six children. So please welcome
0:38.0	Carly and Katie to the podcast. Thank you so much for joining. I'm really excited to talk with you
0:42.2	guys. I've been following you on Instagram forever. We're thrilled to be here. Thanks for having us,
0:47.4	Rachel. When we found out this was the name of your podcast, we're like, oh my gosh, we have to be
0:52.2	on because this no one told us notion comes up
0:55.9	so much with what we do. So we're excited to be here. Yeah, I think with speech language,
1:02.8	especially in, it seems like in the last few years, people are getting lots of mixed messages,
1:08.2	right? So they're hearing one thing from like, you know, the CDC or the AAP guidelines or they're hearing something different from their pediatrician. They're hearing something different from people on Instagram. And then there's all this unsolicited advice that comes into about how much a child should be talking or what you should be doing to encourage communication development. So I'm really excited to
1:27.5	have you guys here today to answer some of our most burning questions about this. And I would love to
1:32.5	just hear first kind of like how you, I'm always just so interested to hear about people's like
1:37.8	Instagram or business journeys. So I would love to hear how you guys met and how you decided to
1:42.7	bring your knowledge together to form
1:44.9	we talkers and kind of how all of that got started.
1:48.6	So Carly and I were doing our own like speech Instagram page and was it like 2019?
1:56.2	You started in 2017, your your Instagram right, Kelly?
1:59.0	Oh, wow.
1:59.1	You're an OG.
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